I am having one of those good weeks in which I am finishing things. I completed my Patagonia cotton tank from last year's Knit Simple. It is, as the magazine suggests, simple, but it is a Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton design and I think it is lovely. Our internet is acting up here in the land of Valparaiso, so I'm having trouble uploading an image of it. I will post one later. I also should be finishing a drop-stitch shrug for myself in the next day or two. Hooray! Then I must assemble a Classic Elite shrug I started last spring. My goal is to have all these garments ready to wear at TNNA market in Columbus in a few weeks. As for finishing on the non-knitting front, yesterday I finished reading Open House by Elizabeth Berg. I haven't read any of her books before, but I enjoyed it. It was a lot like the Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton tanks: simple and lovely.All of this has made me think about the finishing waves that seem to happen periodically. I won't complete anything for months, and then suddenly I am able to finish a whole pile of projects, knitting and otherwise. I guess this comes under the heading of the "when it rains, it pours" adage, but in a good way. Maybe this doesn't happen to everyone else. Maybe there are knitters out there adept at assembly-line-like finishing, evenly distributed throughout the year. I bet their fridges are never over-crowded either, with nothing going bad and everything out by its experation date. My knitting seems to operate under more of the model of a periodical major cleaning out of the fridge. I wait until the fridge is about to burst out the seams, and then everything gets cleaned and thrown out in one fell swoop. That's not to say I am not ashamed of the old eggs or the forgotten cucumber in the bottom of the crisper drawer. I wish I had an always-tidy fridge sans forgotten cucumber. But it's simply not happening.
At least the neglected knitting project in need of finishing doesn't leak mysterious green ooze into the bottom of my crisper drawer.
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